"I can�t believe Elise�s real name is Lethia." Nick was still stunned as he ate his pizza.
"Nick it�s ok. I do think you should call her Lethia from now on though."
"Why?"
"A.J.," she said firmly.
"A.J.?"
"Yes A.J., didn�t you see how happy he was when you finally figured out her real name? He wants to be the only one to call her Elise. That�s his name for her. I never called her that until this past week."
"Oh I get it that�s his pet name. Oh man I�ve been calling her a pet name!"
"It�s not that bad Nick." Heather put her two cents in. "At least you don�t know any other pet names for her. You just might have called her those."
"I love Erica not Elise!" he screamed stunning everyone at the restaurant.
"Dang�" Aaron whispered into his soda.
"I love you too Nick you want me to scream it so you don�t feel so dumb?"
She smiled and continued before he could even answer her. "I love Nick!" she screamed at the top of her lungs.
"Excuse me would you two please quiet down?" asked a little old lady at the table across the aisle.
"Oh god, I�m so sorry." Nick apologized.
"Not that god had anything to do with it." Erica smiled at Nick.
Heather moved over closer to Aaron and whispered, "I wonder when they�re gonna start making out?"
Aaron shrugged and smiled. His brother was always quite entertaining. "I doubt they would right here. They�ll wait till we get home then I�m staying in my room till they are done."
Heather laughed and finished her last slice of pizza. "All gone Nick looks to me like we will be leaving." Aaron said quickly before his brother made a fool of himself.
"Ok. Heather if you wanna come over later you can."
"No I have a deadline. I�m sorry. Tell A.J. that I�m avoiding spas from now on." "I�ll do that." Nick hugged his friend and everyone left.
"Nick you have three hours until the party. Are you sure everything I set up?"
"Positive. Oh yeah, Aaron I got more games for the game room. Play in there." Nick looked at Aaron who nodded.
Nick stood outside the door as Erica changed. He watched her through the mirror. "You look sexy." He whispered under his breath. He prayed she wouldn�t see him.
Erica pulled her shirt over her head and noticed Nick at the door. She very slowly pulled off her pants that Nick had spilled soda on. She then acted like she couldn�t find her other pants searching the ground. "Oh here they are." she pulled them off the bed and slipped them on.
When she looked in the mirror again Nick was still there but he had a goofy grin on his face. She ignored him and threw her hair on top of her head. When she turned to the door Nick was gone.
She tiptoed to the bathroom where she found Nick looking contently in the mirror as though he had been there for a while. "Oh hi Erica." he said turning and giving her a soft kiss.
He pulled his shirt off and threw it in the hamper. "Do you really want to watch?" he pulled a new shirt on.
"I have the right to watch if you do." Erica teased.
"Oh I�m sorry I didn�t mean to stare. It�s just, you�re just so�" his voice trailed off as he shaved.
"I�m so what?"
"I feel weird telling you this."
"So not like I care how dumb what you say is."
"It�s not dumb. It�s just I�ve never really felt so strongly like this and told the person."
"Like what?"
"You�re dead sexy ok." Nick blushed and turned away. �Thank god I didn�t say anything else,� he thought.
"Nick�" Erica turned his face back towards hers. "You are dead sexy." she kissed him and walked out of the bathroom.
"That worked out nicely." Nick whispered as he walked out of the bathroom behind her.
Erica was in the backyard when everyone showed up. "Erica! They�re here!" called Nick.
"Coming."
"What is she doing here?" Erica asked Elise when she saw Viola hanging on Nick. "I don�t know but she�s up to no good."
"It�s time to eat, everyone out back!" A.J. called from the grill.
While everyone was eating Howie nodded to Jen. "Everyone, we have an announcement to make."
"What is it?" asked Nick.
"We�re engaged."
"You know I was wondering why she had a diamond." A.J. joked and hugged his best friend. "You the man."
"No he�s D man!" Brian yelled.
Everyone had a good laugh and about halfway through Viola led Nick to another room. They were just talking when out of nowhere Viola pushed him against the wall and basically shoved her tongue in his mouth. Nick tried to push her off with no luck. What he didn�t notice was Erica who had come in the room to see what was taking so long.
"You jerk!" she screamed and ran away crying.
Nick punched Viola to get her off him. "Erica!" he screamed not even noticing that he had broken Viola�s nose.
He ran all around the house trying to find her. "Erica!" He ran to his room and all her things were gone. "No! Erica please don�t leave me!" he couldn�t even stand.
He fell to the ground. His whole body shook with sobs. "No you can�t leave me." He tried to scream to her but he was too late. He heard the car he had given her screech away.
Brian ran in Nick�s room and tried to get him up on the bed. Nick was frozen in the spot. Then he saw her box. He ran to it and pulled it up against his chest and fell to the ground again.
"Go after her Nick." Brian whispered trying to get his friend off the ground. "Nick, you have the tracker on your car just put the thing into your map on your car and you can follow her." Aaron said kneeling next to his hysterical brother.
"Where�s Viola?" Nick whispered obviously very mad.
"She�s in the kitchen cleaning up her nose, why?"
Nick stood up slowly then ran down to the kitchen. "Get out of my house! Get off my property! I never want to lay eyes on you again!"
"You know that�s what you wanted. She just won�t give you what you want. I can." Viola smirked.
Elise�s hand made an imprint on Viola�s face. Viola hit back, right in Elise�s stomach. Elise punched Viola with all she strength and she flew across the room. "GET OUT OF THIS HOUSE! BEFORE I CALL THE POLICE!" Elise screamed.
Viola ran out the door and Elise fell to the ground. "Oh my god! �Lise is the baby hurt?" A.J. ran to her side.
"No, she hit too high to hurt the baby. She sure did hurt me though." Elise replied weakly.
A.J. picked her up and carried her to his car. He took her straight home to bed. "You will be ok right? You don�t need anything?"
"No Alex, I only need you." Elise smiled and fell to sleep.
Nick was already in his car trying to find Erica. He finally caught up to her car at her parent�s house at about 1:00 in the morning. He was scared to death. He couldn�t loose her too. How could he live without her? He had to talk to her even if it was one in the morning. "Please god let her listen to me." Nick pleaded.